President Trump has gained a reputation for making a prolific number of tweets, more than any other president. He also has used the Twitter forum to lunch attacks on any person or group that annoys him. The news media report on the content of his tweets more actively than they report on what is printed in the Congressional Record which is an official governmental publication. Twitter has no official standing, yet it receives more media attention than is due it.

This week a Twitter employee left the company. His parting gift to the world was deactivating Trump’s Twitter account. It was only inactive for 11 minutes before the error was discovered and the account was reactivated. I thank this former employee for giving the nation and the world 11 minutes free from the ranting posts of our current president!